Yesterday, the United Nation Organization (UN) in New York, USA, hosted the conclusion of the 17th International Forum of the Convention of Independent Financial Advisors (CIFA), this time titled "How to mobilize private finance towards funding the Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)?". The high profile conference, organized in cooperation with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), was attended by numerous prominent guests, decision makers, business persons, representatives of diplomacy, international organizations, universities and institutes as well as financial consultants and other renowned experts from around the world.
More than 150 eminent guests at the gala reception and sponsor dinner at the famous Metropolitan Club in New York, USA were also addressed by the VZMD President and member of the European Federation of Investors (Better Finance), Mr. Kristjan Verbič. He welcomed the CIFA and UN initiative, and expressed support for the efforts to mobilize private finance towards funding the sustainable development goals (SDG), designed under the aegis of the UN. In these efforts, he has also undertaken to establish cooperation between the European and the World Federation of Investors (WFI), and highlighted some additional proposals from the experience of the VZMD and its international business-investor programs. He also presented the latter at yesterday's meeting at the UN palace and in an interview.
The two-day conference brought together influential participants and high guests from all over the world, including Chantal Line Carpentier, UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade & Development), Louise Kantrow, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Ambassador to the UN, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, High Representative of the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), Joe Oliver, former Minister of Natural Resources and former Minister of Finance. Debate focused especially on the urgency and the processes to mobilize private finance towards funding the sustainable development goals, the struggle to eradicate poverty, limiting the causes and consequences of climate change, the G77 group and the ECOSOC designed program for funding development (FfD Forum), encouraging people to build an equal and inclusive society, regulating global financial systems, taxation and related funding for the SDGs.
During the intensive events, the VZMD President participated in numerous other meetings and discussions, including with the Director of the UN Division for Inclusive Social Development, Ms. Daniela Bas, the Director of the UN Financing for Sustainable Development Office, Mr. Navid Hanif, and the Slovene Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent UN Representation, Mr. Miha Erman, and on Sunday, he also attended the reception at the Millennium Hotel near the UN palace. The VZMD has been working successfully with the CIFA, the influential Geneva, Switzerland-based international foundation, for many years, and in 2016 Mr. Verbič was an invited speaker at the highly visible 14th CIFA forum in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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